Water-purifying apparatus.



M. F. NEWMAN.

WATER PURIFYING APPARATU8.

APPLIGATION FILED DEO,31,1908.

Patented May 18, 1909.

WATER LINE U aITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTINF. NEW-MAN, UF PITTSBIRG,

I PENNSYLVANIA. ASSIUNUR 'lt) W. l. SK'AI'FE & 'COMPANY, OF PITTSBURG. PENNSYLVANIA. A CORPORATION ill NEW JERSEY.

WATER-PURIFYING APPARATUS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 18, 1909.

To all whom it may come-m: V Be it known that I, Marrrrx F. Xnwiux, :1 citizen of the United States. residing at Pittsburg, in the State of Pennsylvania. have feeding apparatus and pump. and a section of the submerged mixer in place in a large supply body of Water. FIgTQ indicates a modification of the intake for use in mines,

and Fig. 3r is a modified detail of the latter.

Heretofore it has been customary to pump the raw Water into specially designed conduits and tanks and there treat it to chemical reagents. (ertain impurities in the water such asfacids have a \"cry deliterious effect upon the machinery and the pipes and tanks. I accomplish the obje is above specified and other advantages bymixing the chemical directly into the intake from the water suply. Thus in Fig. 1. I show the device in a arge body. as a river or mine sump or other reservoir; including a submerged intake chamber 1. which .18 preferably made of wood, and from this by means of pipe 2 and a, suction pump 3 driven by engine 4. 1 discharge the water through pipe 5 to the ap 3aratus for further purifying, or for immediate use if this further treatment is not necessary. The chamber 1' has an open-bottom and takes inthe water freely. but it must pass through the stirring device 6 which is driven in any convenient manner. as by gears 7 and ulley 8, and in so doing it is mixed with tie reagent. The reagent is introduced directly at the inlet of the chamber 1, as by being prepared in tank .9 and mjected under pressure by pum 10 through pipe 11. Preferably the spee of the mam pump andthe chemical pump ism a ratio. p

In the modification of Fig), 2 the existence of mineggalleriggw I suppose ich are too inlet pipe proper.

small to give room for the large intake chamher. and in such case I gain sufficient volume by a considerable length of large wooden suction pipe 2 following the passages of the mine to the lower sump level. w ien it 0 ends in an open-ended submerged intake 1: the pump is supposed to be. located at any convenient place as before. The form of this pipe alone causes intcrmixing of the chemical as the water is drawn through it. the chemical being here. as before. introduced directly at the intake. as by a small lead pipe 13 passing down through any course that is convenient. from a pump and mixer as before descr'ibctlf In some cases a stirrer is required. and this may be arranged at the intake as shown in Fig. 3. where 14 represents a water motor to drive the stirring device.

It will be noted that in both forms of apparatus the chemical isintroduced under pressure and thoroughly mixed with the titer before it ever reaches any of the machinery. or in Fig. 1. antecedent even to the In this al o. any matter 30 precipitated is automatically dumped out o t' the system at the intake and assists in the action on fre hly introduced Water. In both forms the mixer is partly automatic, inasmuch as no water can flow into the water 5 pump without passing through a supply of (the chemical reagent. and only so much water as is used. 1s treated to the chenncal.

Having thus described my invention and illustrated its use. what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent, isthe followipIg:-.

1. n water pnrifyin apparatus. a reagent treatment device adapted to remove deleterious materials from the water at the intake from the supply before reaching any of the machinery. of the water handling system.

2. In water purifying apparatus, a reagent treatment vessel, forming the intake from the supply to the system, substantially as described. 7

3. In water purifying apparatus, the combination ,with a Water'pump and a supply reservoir, of an open ended intake chamber in said reservoir and connected to the pump, and a chemicalreagent inlet in the intake chamber.

.- [4-A water supply intake made in the the supply, Combined with means for? introducing a rea fBIlt under ressure therein, and a stirring cevice therein, substantially as described. 1 i

5. In a Water handling system, the c01nbination with a water supply and a pump for drawing therefrom, of 1m 0 amended intake vessel in the sup 1y, having means to introduce and mix in chemical reagents with the water at its initial entrance to the system.

(ii A. water supply intake ,vessel having a stirring device, combined withmeans. to; m frmiuce reagents directly to said intake and under pressure.

In testmmny whereof I have hereunder signed my name in the presence of the two, subscribed witnesses.

MARTIN F. NEWMAN. Witnesses:

F. W. H. CLAY,

(firms S. LEE-max 

